as in to acculturate
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To us, acculturated to the darkened theater and the Hollywood spotlight, these techniques are familiar: too familiar.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025 -
The art world is acculturated to the notion that biennials should highlight new narratives but seems to presume that those artists must also be living and relatively young.—
Pamela J. Joyner,
ARTnews.com,
14 Oct. 2024
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These products habituate parents and babies to see surveillance as equivalent to care.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
15 May 2025
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By then, bureaucratic America—corporate and government alike—was well habituated to buying its computers from IBM.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Oct. 2017
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Many of them conditioned their support for the package on lifting or raising the cap on these deductions.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
22 May 2025
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The gist is that he has been conditioned to act that way around other men and doesn’t have the tools or self-awareness to figure out how to quit.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Some investors that are close to the Trump administration or accustomed to working in sanctioned economies may not be deterred.—
Natasha Hall,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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Related Stories But many in the business community are skeptical about what the EPR bills will mean for California’s businesses, many of which are not accustomed to the burden of these responsibilities or equipped to comply with the new laws.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
27 May 2025
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At a minimum, the U.S. should give citizenship to the thousands of adoptees who were never naturalized by their parents, and who are now at risk for deportation.—
Time,
Time,
15 May 2025
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For this reason, some green card holders choose to naturalize first, gaining U.S. citizenship before initiating a family sponsorship process.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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“Enculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enculturate. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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